Agriculture

Fertigation Guide for High-Value Crops: Scheduling, Fertilizers and Best Practices High-value crops such as tomato, capsicum, cucumber, banana, grapes, pomegranate and strawberry can respond strongly to precise water and nutrient management. Their nutrient demand also changes as plants move from establishment to vegetative growth, flowering, fruit set and maturity. Applying one large fertilizer dose at fixed intervals may therefore be inefficient. Fertigation offers a more co

Biostimulants in Agriculture: Guide for Indian Crops Indian farming is becoming more demanding. Crops must perform under changing rainfall, rising temperatures, soil constraints and increasing pressure to use agricultural inputs more efficiently. This has brought greater attention to biostimulants in agriculture. But biostimulants are also widely misunderstood. They are sometimes treated as fertilisers, sometimes confused with biofertilisers, and occasionally promoted as prod

Micronutrient Deficiency in Crops: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Correction Micronutrient deficiency in crops can be easy to notice and difficult to diagnose correctly. Yellowing between leaf veins, stunted growth, malformed young leaves, shortened internodes or poor flowering may indicate a nutrient shortage, but similar symptoms can also result from disease, salinity, root damage, drought, waterlogging or unsuitable soil pH. The FAO defines soil fertility as the ability of soil t

A Complete Guide on Integrated Nutrient Management in Agriculture Fertiliser is essential to modern food production, but more fertiliser does not automatically produce more yield. The International Fertilizer Association estimates that mineral fertilisers help produce roughly half of the food consumed worldwide. Yet UNEP reports that about half of the nitrogen fertilizer applied to farm fields can end up as pollution instead of crop nutrition. Integrated nutrient management i

Biofertilizers in India: Where They Work and How to Use Them Every season, more farmers across India add a packet or bottle of biofertilizer to their input list, expecting a chemical-fertilizer-like jump in yield. Some fields respond well; others show little change, and the difference usually comes down to soil condition, storage, and application method rather than the product itself. Understanding biofertilizers in India means understanding where the science holds up in real

Types of Fertilisers: Urea, DAP, NPK, Water-Soluble and Micronutrients Choosing a fertilizer is not simply a matter of buying the most familiar bag or selecting the product with the highest nutrient number. Urea, DAP, NPK fertilisers, water-soluble fertilisers and micronutrient products perform different functions. The right choice depends on what the soil can already supply, what the crop needs, its growth stage, the irrigation system and the intended application method. No